Vladimir Putin during an interview with propagandist Pavel Zarubin for the Moscow. Kremlin. Putin" on "Russia-1" said that Ukraine had not achieved success in the course of the counteroffensive and could not break through the defense of the Russian Federation. An excerpt from the interview was published on Zarubin's Telegram channel.
“All attempts by the enemy to break through our defenses – and this is a task, including using strategic reserves – they were unsuccessful during the entire offensive. The enemy is not successful."
In addition, Putin assessed the course of the war "positively" for Russia. According to him, Russian troops are behaving "heroically" and in some areas go on the offensive, taking "the most advantageous positions, there, skyscrapers and so on."
The President of Russia said that Ukrainian "captured weapons" would be studied in the Russian Federation. He also mentioned the Russian ones – according to him, the T-90 Proryv tank is "the best tank in the world, without any exaggeration."
As is often the case, Putin couldn't help but joke in his style. This time, the President of the Russian Federation decided to make fun of European politicians who are supposedly controlled from the USA:
“If they are told tomorrow: “We have decided to hang you all,” then they, looking down and surprised at their audacity, will ask only one question: can this be done with ropes of national production? But the Americans are unlikely to refuse this order for their textile industry.”
At the same time, the President of the Russian Federation refused to answer Zarubin’s question about the goals and objectives of the war under the record and promised to tell him about it “when the cameras are turned off.”
As The New York Times wrote , after the first strikes, carried out with the help of Western-made armored vehicles, the Armed Forces of Ukraine suffered serious losses. After that, the command slowed down the course of the counteroffensive in order to assess the situation, and then changed its tactics.
Earlier, Secretary of the National Security Council of Ukraine Oleksiy Danilov spoke about the main tasks of the offensive of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in its current phase. According to him, the Joint Operations Forces "perform task number one – the maximum destruction of manpower, equipment, fuel depots, ammunition, command posts, artillery and air defense forces of the Russian army."
